stridulate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /stɹɪdjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
stridulate (stridulates, present participle stridulating; past and past participle stridulated)
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 191:
- A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
- 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, p55 ↗
- The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.
- Synonyms: chirp, chirr
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 191:
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